Jon's 90 SPS dominant reef

[freezetyle]

Things have been pretty much on auto pilot lately. I have added a few fish

Current stocking list

Peppermint candy cane hogfish
Two bar rabbitfish
multicolor angelfish
two misbar/semi-picasso clowns
Dragon faced pipefish
two bangaii and one panama cardinal
Flavivertex pseudochromis

might add a kole/tomini tang, but i think that might be over stalking it a bit. Any thoughts?




Little bugger moves too quick, and my camera skills are subpar.



Forgot to add. Ive started the basic 4 of zeovit. I wanted to see if i could get anywhere close to what John (lobster boy) created with his reef. Its going to be a long journey

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by freezetyle

Two bar rabbitfish

Oh for the love of ...... geeeeeeez. This fish is insanely difficult to get over here in Calgary. It's like unobtainium or something.

What I don't get is why in other cities it's not impossible. Grumble, grumble, grumble.

Anyhow seriously though, nice score. Very jealous!

I'm in 12 months of zeo myself and trust me I am nowhere near not even 1/10th of lobsterboys success yet. Persevering for bit more but man either it just aligns perfectly and poof, nice tank .. or .. not..

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Oh for the love of ...... geeeeeeez. This fish is insanely difficult to get over here in Calgary. It's like unobtainium or something.

What I don't get is why in other cities it's not impossible. Grumble, grumble, grumble.

Ive seen it quite regularly on the suppliers stocking list. We actually have another one at our shop at the moment. I'm flying into calgary on the 24th i wonder how hard it would be to bring a fish aboard for you?

[Nano]

nice tank!! I'm getting a cube! I'm so EXCITED I have to figure out a nice unique aquascape!

[Leah]

Wow Jon,

Love the new fish! Is the rabbit as teeny tiny as he looks and angel is just gorgeous.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by freezetyle

Ive seen it quite regularly on the suppliers stocking list. We actually have another one at our shop at the moment. I'm flying into calgary on the 24th i wonder how hard it would be to bring a fish aboard for you?

It's ok - thanks for the offer though. I gave up waiting and went with a virgatus instead. Very similar. I just like the blue on doliatus (they have more blue) and of the virgatus and doliatus I've had in the past, the doliatus was a better eater of valonia. What's especially funny about that is that because the rabbitfish ate valonia, so did my sailfin tang (it's like he got irritated that someone was eating food - and if there's food to be had then by golly he gets dibs on it - but after a moment of weakness and I sold the doliatus, the tang was like "Oh thank goodness I don't have to eat that crap anymore. It tasted terrible!")

I'm not sure how easy it would be to take a fish on a plane. If it's carryon then they're going to want to xray the package which seems like a bad idea for the fish - and if it goes in the hold then it has to be an extra piece of luggage and hopefully it's all insulated and heated ok - and some airlines don't let you carry saltwater on the plane because of its corrosiveness - I'm not sure how the industry gets to ship the stuff but probably for the most part it's part of the freight arrangement between companies - that may not extend to passenger traffic. Basically it sounds like a hassle to me.

Thanks for the offer though! Hopefully one day an LFS over here will see one on the list and remember my request - although I doubt it

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by nanomano

nice tank!! I'm getting a cube! I'm so EXCITED I have to figure out a nice unique aquascape!

Thanks for the compliment

Originally Posted by Leah

Wow Jon,

Love the new fish! Is the rabbit as teeny tiny as he looks and angel is just gorgeous.

The Rabbitfish is a little bigger than a credit card. Favourite fish in the tank right now, mainly because he ate all of the grape caulerpa that hitchhiked in.

I was really hesitant to put in the angel, but the wife kept begging for him. So happy he isn't a polyp nipper.

[freezetyle]

well. Had a really crappy run of things lately.
Cliffs notes:
-wanted to try tweaking coral colour a little bit so i started ZEO.
-stopped dosing prodibio, took gfo offline as required.
-started to notice some good coloration and increased growth.
-Started getting some cyano, and hair algae
-started losing fish
-hair algae and cyano exploded to epic proportions.
-removed zeo, started doing bi-weekly water changes, and replacing gfo weekly.
-hang head and mourn the loss of five fish.



Moral of the story... If it ain't broke, don't fix it...



I am going to be upgrading my return pump in a little bit to help with water turn over through the sump. i was also debating on swapping out the dosing pumps for a calcium reactor. In the last two months i have had my ago pump water into my alk container, and two hose clamps come undone and pump ca and alk into my stand for a few days.

Since i've been focused on training for the cross fit open, it doesn't help that i have not been paying as close attention to the tank as i guess i suppose i should be.

[fishytime]

that sucks Jon.....sorry to hear about the losses.....what did you loose?

[freezetyle]

the two bar rabbit fish, two semi-picasso clowns, dragon faced pipefish, and potentially a flavivertex dotty back.

Its kind of weird that non of the corals or inverts are being affected by whatever is in there. seeming like its some sort or pathogen or something. no signs of ich, no cloudy/pop eyes.

I am brainstorming on whether i should pull the fish out and put them though hypo salinity or some broad medication or (more likely option) leave them in there and just keep them fed with vitamins and garlic.

We have another tiny two bar rabbit fish at the shop. I am debating buying him and putting him in with my seahorses. He would eat back my calurpa problem in there and since he can crazy to his hearts content probably would not contend for food with the ponies